George Burns, left, and Art Fletcher leap and stretch during spring training drills for the New York Giants in Marlin, Texas on March 14, 1914.

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Escapologist Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz, prepares to perform one of his most famous publicity stunts, the overboard box escape, in New York's East River, circa 1914. Houdini was locked in handcuffs and leg-irons, then nailed into the crate which was roped and weighed down with two hundred pounds of lead. The crate was then lowered into the water, from which he escaped in fifty-seven seconds.

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A fifteen-year-old boy in Denison, Texas operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily prove fatal. The boy earns $1.65 a day. This factory has a number of unprotected belts and dangerous machines. One other boy, about the age of this one, was doing all kinds of work, taking away the handles from a huge rip saw, etc., and constantly exposed to danger.

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Portrait of a lone, Kentucky guitar player, seated and playing his guitar.

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Actors costumed in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan chase down a white actor in blackface in a still from 'The Birth of a Nation,' the first-ever feature-length film, directed by D. W. Griffith, California, 1914.

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Babe Ruth, pitcher for the Providence Grays minor league team, poses for a team photograph in 1914.

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A Girl Scout with a man dressed as Uncle Sam circa 1914.

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An Overland automobile is shown in a magazine advertisement from 1914. The ad states, “Yet if they will but compare the $950 Overland with most any of the $1200 to $1400 cars they will be unable to find much material difference.”

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English comic actor Charlie Chaplin (left) and Mack Swain in a scene from the 'His Prehistoric Past', a silent two-reeler written and directed by Chaplin and set in the stone age. This was Chaplin's last film for the Keystone Film Company.

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A poster advertises Buffalo Bill's West West show, part of the Sells Floto Circus, with a painting of Buffalo Bill himself, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), astride a horse, 1914. The poster was printed by the Erie Lithograph & Painting Company of Erie, Pa.

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Reputed gangster James Franche and a policeman a walk toward an automobile parked along the street in Chicago, 1914. Franche, nicknamed, Duffy the Goat, confessed to murdering Isaac Henagow in the Roy Jones Cafe, located at 2037 South Wabash Ave. in the Near South Side area of Chicago. From the Chicago Daily News collection.

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Society women wearing sandwich boards to publicize a talk at Cooper Union by the governors of the states that have granted the vote to women.

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This portrait shows Mrs. Byrd Winters reading a newspaper, sitting in front of a desk with framed prints and a calendar hanging on the wall in the background in a room in Chicago in 1914. Winters, his wife, Byrd Winters, and W. H. Cooper, a boarder of theirs, were charged with conspiracy to murder Winters' daughter and burn the body. From the Chicago Daily News collection.

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Players of the University of Southern California Trojans football team compete against the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

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A group of nurses pictured in uniform on board the S.S. Red Cross, one of the first units of American Red Cross nurses to sail from New York for service in Europe during World War 1. The nurses shown are (top row, from left): Mary F. Bowman, Eva L. Doniat, Edwina Klee, Gertrude G. Hard and Charlotte Eaton; (middle row, from left) Alma E. Foerster, Lyda N. Anderson, Anne Hanson, Julia S. Schneider, Genevieve Dyer, Martha M. Moritz, Alica Giloborne and Mary E. Hill; (seated, from left) Charlotte Burgess, unit supervisor; Jane A. Delano (1862-1919), and Miss. H. Scott Hay, who was in charge of the 120 nurses aboard the ship.

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Ten year old Charlie Foster smiles while at his steady job in the Merrimack Mills factory at Huntsville, Ala. in 1914. His father stated that the boy is unable to read, but still he works at the mill instead of being in school.

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Bert Dingley drives a car along a section of the immense aqueduct at Los Angeles, Calif.

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Edward Hines Lumber Company yard in Chicago is pictured.

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This portrait shows a pair of young boys at work in the weave room of an Alabama cotton mill.

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A Siksika man with calumet and young boy are pictured inside tepee.

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Crowds gather on rooftops across from Shibe Park to watch the Philadelphia Athletics play the Boston Braves during the 1914 World Series.

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This close-up show a large group of suffragists as they ride in a hay wagon adorned with slogans in 1914. One slogan reads 'Woman's Cause is Man's; They Rise Or Fall Together.'

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Somewhere in the American Midwest, a woman sits and reads the newspaper, while waiting for her gas powered washing machine to finish a load of clothing.

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Florence Goadby Lowe and Mrs F.O. Berch drive a car in New York circa 1914.

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A Baker Electric automobile on a snow covered road is shown in a magazine advertisement from 1914.

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Lincoln Beachey sits in an airplane on a dirt field.

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Construction on a new municipal pier in Chicago, Ill. is pictured Sept. 17, 1914.

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A man attends a rally of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or the Wobblies, wearing a hat with a placard bearing the slogan 'Bread Or Revolution', in Union Square, New York, April 11, 1914. The crowds were estimated to be 3,000 strong.

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Members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies, gather together in a large crowd during a rally in Union Square, New York City, April 11, 1914.

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Joe Jackson is the subject of a baseball advertising card produced by the Boston Garter Company in Boston, Mass. in 1914.

Walter Wright sits on a 2-speed Indian motorcycle. Indian motorcycles were manufactured from 1901 to 1953 by a company in Springfield, Mass., initially known as the Hendee Manufacturing Company. It was renamed the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company in 1928.

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Although he ran most of his American Automobile Association (AAA) sanctioned races in Duesenbergs, Maxwells and Masons, Eddie Rickenbacker (at the wheel) did run several events between 1914 and 1916 in a Peugot like the one.

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Members of the courtesy committee of the Colorado Electric club prepare celebration packages that will be given to Denver children at the big Denver Post-Colorado Electric club Christmas celebration. Left to right - W.A. Roper, C.F. Oehlmann and M.C. Gordon.

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This American recruitment poster shows soldiers with guns running in a field.

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Times Square at 47th Street, New York is pictured.

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A group of Inuits of America's Arctic coastline came to visit the camp of the Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefanson, near Point Barrow.

A group of people examine the ruins of the Ludlow colony in Colorado. Built as a temporary shelter for striking coal miners and their families, it was attacked by militiamen and company detectives who shot and burned to death eighteen people including eleven children, the youngest of whom was only three months old.

An above ground subway entrance next to the New York Times Building on Seventh Avenue is shown.

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A drugstore in the New York Times Building at the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street is pictured in New York City.

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A family relaxes in their tenement home in New York City.

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An aerial view shows Wrigley Field in Chicago. Wrigley Field opened April 23, 1914 as the home of the Chicago Cubs.

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One of the original 15 books written by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz saga. was published in 1914.

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Montana congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress was elected in 1914. She is delivering a petition against the Vietnam War to Congress as her final political act in this photo.

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A typical mountaineer family is pictured.

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Two women and a child pose for a souvenir photograph in a seaside studio at Coney Island in New York.

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Legendary ballroom dancer Vernon Castle lifts his wife and partner Irene as they dance before a large mirror in a dance studio in New York in 1914.

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An American Marine sharpshooter aims a 1903 Springfield rifle at opponents during the American intervention in the Mexican Revolution in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1914.

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Lady Randolph Churchill nee Jennie Jerome, the mother of British statesman Winston Churchill, at her Brook Street residence, August 1914.

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Johnny Evers, captain and second baseman for the Boston Braves, goes over the ground rules at Fenway Park with Ira Thomas, Athletics captain and the umpiring crew before the start of game three of the 1914 World Series on October 12th.

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Johnny Evers, second baseman for the World Champion Boston Braves, gives a few batting pointers to neighborhood children in his home town of South Troy, N.Y. in November 1914.

Watched by onlookers on a hill and young boys on the road, a vehicle in the shape of an iron travels a dirt road in an Independence Day parade, Springfield, Vt., July 4, 1914.

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In Winton Place, a factory district, a teacher conducts a class teaching recent immigrants the English language in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Kwakiutl people, some bowing before totem poles in the background, others seated facing forward are part of the nunhlim ceremony, the four days prior to the Winter Dance.

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An early flying machine races against a car.

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Dressing Up to an Ideal

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Well-Dressed Couple

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American industrialist Henry Ford and inventor Thomas Edison, seated in the back, are seen on one of Ford's automobiles at an unknown location in Florida in this 1914 photo. The man on the left is unidentified.

Noted electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz in his 1914 Detroit Electric, with grandchildren (left to right) Midge, Billy and Joe, and his adopted son, Joseph Hayden in this undated photograph. (Union College archives)

Major Events in 1914

Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut in "Making a Living." (February)

President Woodrow Wilson orders troops to take military action against Mexico following the Tampico Incident. (April)

Mother's Day is recognized as a national holiday in the U.S. (May)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, unofficially beginning World War I. (June)